INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY

1. Write three major differences between plants and animals.

2. List the use of the energy obtained from the process of respiration.

3. State three characteristic similar in plants and animals.

4. Motor vehicles move, use energy and produce carbon dioxide and water. Similar

characteristics occur in living organisms yet motor vehicles are not classified as living.

List other characteristics of living things that do NOT occur in motor vehicles.
INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY ANSWERS
1.
Plants Animals
- Manufacture their own food - Cannot manufacture their own food
- Grow continuously throughout their life - Stop growing when they reach maturity
- Slow in responding to stimuli - Fast in responding to stimuli
2. - Growth of the organism
- Movement of the organism
- Maintenance of metabolic activities
3. They grow
 They respire
 They have gaseous exchange
 They reproduce
 They excrete
 They respond to stimuli
 They have nutrition
4. They reproduce
They grow
They respond to stimuli